The Community of Love [MP3]

This 2013 five-day Academy class is built around two central themes, taken from two quotations. The first is a statement made by the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler: "…the most important thing for a performing artist was to build up a community of love for the music with the audience… ." The second comes from an old Spanish proverb: "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." The classes, therefore, focus on the need for us as students of A Course in Miracles to take its wealth for ourselves, and then share it with everyone we meet or even think of. In this way, a community of love is established that welcomes all people into our little gardens of love and forgiveness, the circle of Atonement that Jesus invites us all to join, and rest in God.

You rest within the peace of God today, and call upon your brothers from your rest to draw them to their rest, along with you. … Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you. … We give to those unborn and those passed by, to every Thought of God, and to the Mind in which these Thoughts were born and where they rest. And we remind them of their resting place each time we tell ourselves, "I rest in God."